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Napoleon personifies the ironic and harsh response of the military men of the XIX century to the literary dreams of the XVIII.
The Future of the Intelligentsia (1905)
Of these two powers in conflict, Intelligentsia and Force, which seemed to win in the course of the same century?
The Future of the Intelligentsia (1905)
Religion is the first of the powers that can oppose the plutocracies, and especially a religion that is as strongly organised as Catholicism; instituted as a function of the state it loses a large part of its independence and, if money is the master of the state, it loses its outspokenness against money. Material power triumphs without the control of its principal spiritual antagonist.
The Future of the Intelligentsia (1905)
Ronsard and Malherbe, Corneille and Bossuet defended in their time the state, the king, the fatherland, property, the family and religion. Romantic literature attacked the laws or the state, public and private discipline, the fatherland, the family and property; an almost unique condition of their success seemed to be to please the opposition, to work towards anarchy.
The Future of the Intelligentsia (1905)